Equipping an adsorbent with an indicator: a novel composite to simultaneously detect and remove heavy metals from waterElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: The structures of 1,10-phenanthroline and chitosan; 1H NMR analysis of 5-amino-phenanthroline; comparison of metal ion concentrations detected by the composite and FASS; adsorption capacity of Fe(ii) (or Cu(ii)) vs. time with an initial concentration of 50, 100 and 200 mg L−1; curve fitting with a pseudo-first order kinetic m

• Main Authors: Jiang, Hualin, Zhang, Weibo, Chen, Pinghua, Zhang, Weiwei, Wang, Guoyao, Luo, Xubiao, Luo, Shenglian
• Format: Journal Article
• Published: 26.07.2016

A novel composite that can simultaneously detect and remove heavy metals was prepared in this study. Its adsorption ability rivals that of excellent traditional adsorbents; furthermore, it can change the color to identify the adsorbate and its concentration. The color changes are very easy to detect...